I upgraded my site yesterday. It's one more step closer to WordPress 2.1.

It's highly recommended to upgrade if you're running an older 2.0.x version of WordPress because of the security fixes and patches made with the new release.

If anyone needs some help doing an upgrade, let me know and I'll help you out no problem.

Yep, that's the official word on the WordPress Blog.

If you want to digg it: http://digg.com/programming/WordPress_2_0_6_Released

@Gnome: What we've done with OpenDesigns.org and WordPress doesn't touch any core files, however with the forum integration, we have one area, the user base, that is shared, so we are doing off site testing with the new WP upgrade to make sure everything works and nothing is changed in the user table in WordPress.

@Ainslie: We have plenty of backups going on for the site, so we can recover if we have any sort of issue but as I said above, we're doing off site testing of the new version before we move it here live.

I have 2.05 and was wondering if I can get by without an upgrade or is it necessary to bump it from 2.05 to 2.06.

What do you think?

In any case, 2.06 has only been out a few hours. Wouldn't be wise to wait a couple days and see if they have identified any issues? Plus, many of our plugin authors will need time to update their plugins won't they?

OK ia guess that answers part of my question. I suppose the other part is why not wait a day or so :P This version might have buggies of its own :D

At least update the templates.php file as thats where the major flaw is.

EDIT: Ainslie beat me to it!!

Sorry Christopher

...and speaking of bugs here's the first and the fix: Here

About the wp-include directory-

I am confused by this statement that says delete everything except for, among other things, the:

"wp-includes/languages/ folder--if you are using a language file do not delete that folder;"

Does that mean that if there is NOT a subfolder within wp-includes called "languages", then we should delete the entire wp-includes folder/directory?

@4evrblu:

restart you machine, spin around 13 times, and say sit while holding your tongue. That should solve your issue.

OK now were cooking on all four burners baby!!! No wonder my a$$ is on fire! Oh wait.... that must have been them Jalapenos I ate last night

~thinks to himself~

"That's because wordpress is spelled with two S's you moron, not 3 S's! Sheesh...."

Apparently there is some weird errors with people getting 500 errors. I'm not sure what's causing it. There was also a feed problem that was fixed. Looks like 2.0.7 is coming soon.

Apparently there was one small bug with RSS feeds and FeedBurner that slipped into version 2.0.6 and there is a fix from Mark Jaquith one of the lead WordPress developers.

I've already made the fix on OpenDesigns.org and my personal site as well.

Well, it was about time for me to upgrade from 2.0.3 ;)

Upgrade went flawless. :)

Posted By: ainslieOpen source, don't you just love it

I praise anything Open Source.

Posted By: christopherThe only downside to Open Source is that the source code is available free of charge to anyone who wants, which is the main reason to upgrade whenever possible. As anyone can get their hands on the base that your site is running off, which means they can search for exploits. One of the major downsides to Open Source is also the main advantage to it, oh how fun isn't it haha.

Exactly. I remember one phpbb exploit that let you pretty much run any shell command you wanted on unpatched phpbb installs. It was crazy simple. I "hacked" a friend of mine and completely freaked him out. (didn't do anything malicious, just made an index.html file suggesting an ugprade)